Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
ca.1665 (painted)
ca.1665 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, his hair long. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine, with some blue-grey blended in for the shadow and a little white heightening in the eyes and lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash with some darker colour and the lights in gouache; costume in opaque washes, modelled in darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; background to the left a plain brown wash, to the right a sky and landscape in opaque washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: A slightly unconventional seventeenth-century silver-gilt locket, or possibly a nineteenth-century imitation of the type; a shallowly convex back, the sides with a broad deep channel flaring to the bezel, which holds the convex bevelled glass; the hanger, which is set on the arris of the junction between the back and channelled sides, of D-section, bifurcates into reverse turns before beginning tapering spirals of five turns.
Frame: A slightly unconventional seventeenth-century silver-gilt locket, or possibly a nineteenth-century imitation of the type; a shallowly convex back, the sides with a broad deep channel flaring to the bezel, which holds the convex bevelled glass; the hanger, which is set on the arris of the junction between the back and channelled sides, of D-section, bifurcates into reverse turns before beginning tapering spirals of five turns.
Object details
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Title | Unknown Man (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man, watercolour on vellum by Thomas Flatman, ca.1665. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, his hair long. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine, with some blue-grey blended in for the shadow and a little white heightening in the eyes and lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash with some darker colour and the lights in gouache; costume in opaque washes, modelled in darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; background to the left a plain brown wash, to the right a sky and landscape in opaque washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: A slightly unconventional seventeenth-century silver-gilt locket, or possibly a nineteenth-century imitation of the type; a shallowly convex back, the sides with a broad deep channel flaring to the bezel, which holds the convex bevelled glass; the hanger, which is set on the arris of the junction between the back and channelled sides, of D-section, bifurcates into reverse turns before beginning tapering spirals of five turns. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man with a landscape in the right background. |
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Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
Object history | Provenance: Not among the miniatures lent to the Museum by the Hon. F H A Wallop, so presumably retained by him, or perhaps acquired on his own account by Alan Evans; bequeathed by Alan Evans in 1974 to the National Gallery; placed on indeterminate loan at the V&A. |
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Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997.
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Accession number | EVANS.23 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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